N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-40-1

The purposes of this Article are

(1) To promote the public welfare by regulating rates to the end that they shall not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory;

(2) To authorize the existence and operation of qualified statistical organizations and require that specified services of the organizations be generally available to all admitted insurers;

(3) To encourage, as the most effective way to produce rates that conform to the standards of subsection (1) of this section, independent action by and reasonable price competition among insurers;

(4) To authorize cooperative action among insurers in the rate-making process, and to regulate such cooperation in order to prevent practices that tend to bring about monopoly or to lessen or destroy competition; and

(5) To encourage the most efficient and economic marketing practices.